Julia steef



UNITED STATES PATENT OF ICE.

JULIA STERN, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

POKE-BONNET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 284,511, dated September 4, 1883.

Application filed June 18, 1883. (No model.)

To all uihom it may concerto.-

Be it known that I, J ULIA'STERN, a citizen 7 of the United States, and a resident of the city The object of my improvement is to provide 1 the French pattern style'cap, of worsted or other goods, with a poke-front suitably trimmed, to obtain thereby a poke-bonnet, so that by this means the article may be worn suitably as a French cap oras a poke-bonnet. I attain this object by the article illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 represents myimproved poke-front,

I made in the style according to my invention,

and detached. Fig. 2 represents the so-called French pattern style cap, of worsted or suitable material. Fig. 3 is the combination of front, suitable for being worn as a fashionable poke-bonnet.

A represents the body of the French pattern style cap, made of worsted or othersuitable goods. It hasa ruffled front and bottom edge or ruche, B, with silk tipping and scalloping,- and is trimmed with ribbon.

I ner substantially as herein shown and set forth.

D represents the poke-front, which may be made of worsted or lace or other suitable 5 goods. Its rear portion, E, is a cap, over which the French pattern style cap Ais fitted loosely. It is shown smooth and plain, but may have plain trimming. To its front is attached, in a neat and strong manner, the front 0 portion, F, having full pokes G toward the top of the same, which gradually lessen their fold downward and terminate finally by flat ears H H. The outside of the portion E has its pokes trimmed with silk scalloping, which reduces toward the ears H. The front edge is tipped with silk, and the inside is linedat I Iwith suitable bonnet-lining, and is trimmed with the lace and ribbon ruffle or ruche J.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In poke-bonnets, the combination of the French (pattern style) cap with the detached p0ke-front D, for the purpose and in the man- In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name, in the presence of two witnesses, this 13th day of June, 1883.

JULIA STERN.

WVitnesses DANL. STERN, J OHN A; NEXsEN. 

